Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Links

Human Rights Organizations

Human Rights Watch     

Afghanistan
http://hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=afghan

"Enduring Freedom" Abuses by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/afghanistan0304/index.htm    

Interrogation Techniques for Guantanamo Detainees
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/08/19/usdom9248_txt.htm 

Iraq & Iraqi Kurdistan
http://hrw.org/doc?t=mideast&c=iraq Iraq & Iraqi Kurdistan
http://hrw.org/doc?t=mideast&c=iraq

The Legal Prohibition Against Torture (updated)
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/11/TortureQandA.htm 

Q&A: Private Military Contractors and the Law
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/05/iraq8547.htm

Summary of International and U.S. Law Prohibiting Torture and Other Ill-treatment of Persons in Custody
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/24/usint8614.htm

Table of Interrogation Techniques Recommended/Approved by U.S. Officials
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/0819interrogation.htm 

Timeline of Detainee Abuse Allegations and Responses
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/07/usint8556.htm

United States
http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa

U.S. Criticisms of Mistreatment and Torture Practices
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/afghanistan0304/7.htm  

U.S. Law Prohibits Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading 
Treatment or  Punishment
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/after_911/PDF/Torture.pdf  

U.S. Torture and Abuse of Detainees
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/torture.htm 

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 
http://www.icrc.org 

Deprived of Freedom (brochure)    http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/B462B98285B30773C1256C79004D4EE7

International humanitarian law and human rights   http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/section_ihl_and_human_rights?OpenDocument

Protecting prisoners and detainees in wartime
http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/detention

Visits to Prisoners and Documentation of Torture by Hernan Reyes , MD - chapter reprint    http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/E842974FB4CBB689C1256BCD003482E3

Physicians for Human Rights

Statement of Leonard Rubenstein, Executive Director, 6/2/04
http://www.aclu.org/news/NewsPrint.cfm?ID=13965&c=36   

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Emergency contacts and resources 

SOUTHEAST
TENNESSEE

Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, Inc.
Chattanooga Office
Phone 423-267-1297 
Fax 423-265-4923

Children's 
Advocacy Center
- Hamilton County
Office: 
(423) 266-6918
24-hour child abuse hotline: 
(423) 266-0162

Domestic Violence
Resources

Focus Adolescent Services: Family Help in Tennessee
(410) 341-4342
(877) 362-8727

The Partnership
for Families,
Children and Adults
(Partnershipfca)
Family Violence 
Services Shelter
and Sexual Crisis & Resource Center
24-hour hotline:
(423) 755-2700

Survival Necessities Assistance

Tennessee Dept.
of Human Services
Child and elder abuse
24-hour hotline:
(423) 266-0162

USA 

Abuse Consultants
Suicide resource
page

Child Help USA
24-hour National
Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-422-4453

Cyber Tipline
To report child sexual exploitation
24-hour hotline: 1-800-843-5678

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men
24-hour hotline:
1-877-643-1120, 
pin # 0757

Friends of Battered Women and Their Children
Counseling and legal
advocacy
24-hour hotline:
1-800-603-4357

Hot Peach
Pages - USA
State lists of agencies against domestic violence

KID SAVE
"Referrals to shelters, mental health services,
sexual abuse
treatment, substance abuse, family counseling,
residential care, adoption/foster care, etc."
24-hour helpline:
1-800-543-7283

National Center
for Missing and
Exploited
Children (NCMEC)
24-hour hotline
1-800-843-5678

National Center
on Elder Abuse
State Elder Abuse
Hotlines

National Family
Violence Helpline
24-hour hotlines:
National Child
Abuse Hotline
1-800-422-4453
National Domestic
Violence Hotline
1-800-799-7233 or
1-800-787-3244
(TTY)
Victims of elder abuse
1-800-879-6682

National Family
Violence Hotline
24-hour hotlines:
1-800- 221-2681  
1-800- 222-2000

National Runaway/ Adolescent Suicide Hotline
24-hour hotline:
1-800-621-4000

National Suicide Hotline
(Centerstone)
24-hour hotline:
1-800-SUICIDE
(1-800-784-2433)

National Youth
Crisis Hotline
"...for children and
youth who are
abused, suicidal, chemically dependent, depressed over family
or school problems, runaway or
abandoned."
24-hour hotline
1-800-442-4673

Rape, Abuse, &
Incest National
Network (RAINN)
24-hour hotline:
1-800-656-4673

SAFE (Self-Abuse
Finally Ends) Alternatives) 
Provides Information;
not a crisis number
1-800-DONT-CUT
(1-800-366-8288)

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Stop It Now!
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Helpline 
(office hours only)
1-888-773-8368

Suicide Prevention
24-hour hotlines
1-800-827-7571
1-800-784-2433

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."

CANADA  

Abuse
Consultants
Suicide resources

Centre for Treatment of Sexual Abuse & Childhood Trauma
Serves Ottawa-Carleton 
613-233-4929

Hot Peach
Pages - Canada  
Agencies against
domestic violence

Kids' Help Phone
National phone counselling svc. for children and youths
24-hour hotline
1-800-668-6868

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Telecare Distress
Centre
Confidential 24-hour crisis and befriending phone support line:
(905) 459-7777
(Not toll-free)
Email address: telecare@on.aibn.com

Victims of Violence
For victims of violent crime - Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 233-0052
vofv@victimsofviolence.
on.ca

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."

Non-emergency help & support 

Advocacy
Committee for
Human Experimentation Survivors - Mind
Control
(ACHES-MC)

Mr. Light and Associates/
Utah Committee Against Ritual
Abuse (UCARA)

NetSmartz411
"Online resource for answering questions about Internet safety, computers, and the Web."

North American
Freedom
Foundation
(NAFF)

Occult Research
and Crime
Consultants
(ORCC)

Stop Mind Control
and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART)

Survivorship

Many more contacts are listed in our "Support and Resources" web pages.